Known for Japantown, historical churches, and the vibrant Fillmore and Polk Street shopping areas, Cathedral Hill is also home to thousands of homeowners, residents of retirement and assisted-living facilities, and tenants. In fact, our dynamic 36-square-block neighborhood is one of the most densely populated areas in San Francisco.

Now, we all face a serious challenge

California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC), part of the huge Sutter Health corporation, does not think we are a neighborhood. They want to build a massive medical campus on the site of the Cathedral Hill Hotel, claiming that we are a “non-residential area” to justify their plan. They are asking for planning permission to:

·Build a 331-foot-high hospital, nearly three times as high as permitted by the building code, from curb to curb on the current Cathedral Hill Hotel site, in violation of the set-back requirements also provided in the code

·Build a medical office building across Van Ness, and tunnel under the street to connect the two buildings, which will require street closure during construction

·Employ 4,000 people on three shifts, while providing less than 1,100 parking places

CPMC has not been a good neighbor in other parts of San Francisco

·They have been in disputes for years over congestion, traffic, parking, and noise in all of the their San Francisco campuses

·They have failed to obtain suitable sites in other areas of the city

·Now, they want to build a colossal medical campus in our neighborhood by lobbying for exemptions in use, height, and density provisions of the city building code

People Live Here!

The Cathedral Hill Neighbors believe that neighborhoods function best on a human scale. This proposed hospital needs to be built on an appropriate site for a medical campus, or broken into several smaller hospitals to serve the health care needs of San Franciscans, including residents of Cathedral Hill. Cathedral Hill serves as our city's hub for senior services, places of worship, business districts and major transit corridors. Please join us ensuring that CPMC and Sutter Health comply with existing planning provisions that meet human need, not corporate greed.